07 Dec 1737
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 07, 1737
Page
1
News letters describe Ottoman advance with about 60,000 Turks surrounding a town, possible siege, and shifting troop positions across Europe. Reports from Vienna and Stockholm note finances for campaigns, imperial diplomacy, and potential peace talks in Moldavia or Soroka.
A Rome letter reports Confessions at the Chevalier de St George's Palace as frequent, with Corsican Bastia preparations for French troops and Genoa and Corsica awaiting a hoped festival. Hamburg writes of a public tax to cover war costs. Dantzick notes Courland settlement and a plan to redeem lands. Paris reports a violent wolf attack near Chateaufort. other items include ship losses, court appointments, and lottery prizes.
Dec 5 deal lists ships remaining in the Downs including the St George Lutas for Leghorn and the Constant Phillips and the Mary Paxton both for Jamaica. The King of Portugal Hughes sails for Lisbon. Arrived Susanna Woodhouse from Milford and James River Bell from Virginia.
Mr Thomas Hincucrer at the Great Wheat Sheaf on Ladgate Hill sells all sorts of mourning wares at reduced prices for the present occasion.
The Evening listing announces an assortment of fabrics for sale at Mr. Bell's warehouse in Bow Lane near Artillery Lane. Items include cambletees black, pettians, poplins, damasks, shagreens, velvets, taffetas, diuarts, mantuas, crapes, broadcloths, and other textiles. Goods are to be seen at the warehouse near the churchyard, Bow Lane.
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